By Abhinav Shashank – Whatever we do in the healthcare space, it is eventually meant for the greater good of patients, which is why today the aim of modern healthcare is shifting towards value-based reimbursement.
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By Lisa Eramo – EHRs were a hot topic at the annual AHIMA’s conference. Sessions addressed ways health information management professionals working in physician practices and hospitals can help mitigate risk, engage patients, and develop best practices.
By John Halamka MD – I recently participated in a nationwide (not the United States) healthcare IT planning effort and one recommendation was universal availability of patient portals. Several reviewers commented that patient portal is a loaded term.
By Abhinav Shashank – Since 1966, Americans have received more Nobel Prizes in Medicine than rest of the world combined with astonishing advancement in medical treatments, but how much of it reflected on ground level is still a troublesome figure.
By Susan Cruz – In today’s disruptive healthcare environment, we’re hearing of all sorts of new initiatives that aim to provide the best and most affordable healthcare to patients. Everything from MACRA, to Meaningful Use, to interoperability.
By Irv Lichtenwald – If community hospitals are a general barometer of health in the surrounding area, the emergency room is the canary in the coal mine. Viral outbreaks, increases in violence, loss of health insurance from local layoffs—all are social ills.
By Arun Mirchandani – The mobile knowledge navigator Siri, and her counterparts such as Cortana and Google Now, have brought a new level of convenience to mobile users. Why not take advantage of easy voice commands and intelligent app interfacing for healthcare?
By Lucia Savage & Karson Mahler – As EHR adoption becomes widespread, and providers increasingly embrace the patient engagement opportunities of digital health, EHR customers look to EHR vendors to ensure that health information is available.
By Irv H. Lichtenwald – We will get to a point where EHRs are a great deal more functional and user friendly, where APIs link most if not all health IT platforms and clinical devices, where wearable technology enables remote monitoring of patient condition.